Reading List

Adoptive Parents

• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adopted Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
• Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston
• Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina
• Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber and Phylis Speedlin
• Children of Open Adoption by Kathleen Silber and Patricia Martinez Dorner
• Adoption is a Family Affair by Patricia Irwin Johnston
• Inside Transracial Adoption by Gail Steinberg and Beth Hall
• The Handbook for Single Adoptive Parents by Hope Marindin
• Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss by Claudia L. Jewett-Jarratt
• Adopted for Life by Russell Moore

Birth Mothers/Families

• The Spirit of Open Adoption by James L. Gritter
• Dear Birthmother by Kathleen Silber
• The Open Adoption Experience by Lois Ruskai and Sharon Kaplan Rosiza
• Saying Goodbye to a Baby by Patricia Roles
• Lifegivers by James L. Gritter

Texas Baptist Home has some of these books available to read.  Others are available at your local bookstore or online.